AtlasSouth Korea2 on record

South Korea

East Asia

Korean brewing was locked up by licensing rules that favoured a few large producers until the law was loosened in the 2010s. Everything interesting here has happened since, alongside a national habit of drinking beer with fried chicken.

Beers on record

PlateSouth Korea1 town

Fig. 2. Circle area is beers on record for that town. Labels appear as room allows, so zooming in reveals towns rather than enlarging them. Only towns whose coordinates could be sourced are drawn, so an unmarked town means a missing coordinate rather than a town without beer. Tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Towns as a table1

Towns in South Korea with beers on record
Town	Beers
Seoul	2

The colour of these beersSRM 4–4 · median 4

Styles here

Pale Lager2

On the recordcounted from 2 beers

The record here

Breweries2
Towns1
Styles1

These are facts about this record, not about the world. They are counted from the beers on file, and the atlas is only as deep as its sources: 74% of everything it holds is American or Dutch, because that is what the bulk import reached, not because that is where beer is. So the styles most often recorded in South Korea are not necessarily the ones most often brewed there, and a country with few beers here has a thin record rather than a thin brewing scene.

2 beers